-
Moving Day: Finding Items You’ll Love & Knowing Yourself Better for It
I just moved two weeks ago. It was a stressful move and a heroic effort. My roommate and I moved two apartments worth of furniture in ten hours, and I was sore the next day, but otherwise the move went smoothly. I didn’t have a lot of furniture which helped, but this also meant…
-
Home Ec: Why Don’t Schools Teach How to Run a Household?
I’m a social worker, and the population I work with are the chronically homeless. This means they’ve been homeless for 5 years or longer. Before I worked with this population, I viewed them mostly as lost causes. They seemed to me, so mentally ill, that there wasn’t anyway for them to come back. Or…
-
Ambient Lighting: How to Set a Relaxing Tone in Your Home & In Yourself
I burn a lot of candles. When I was a teenager living next to Salem MA, or the witch city, I remember looking back at a candle I had lit that I used to cast a love spell with. The flame was surrounded by a blanket of snow, lending the white field it was…